I need your help; your subjective opinion - is it fun? Can it be more fun with more work? Is it bankrupt? Is the core mechanic ideas worth pursuing?
If enough of you think it is, then I'll keep going. If not, then I'll park it and move on.
DOWNLOAD HERE unzip and run the Cloudship exe.
I love playing with colours. It's half the reason that rebranding always took too long! Paletton is a hand colour tool that has a great feature showing complementary with luminosity values too.
I may have mentioned on a Sunday night or two my CPU had been struggling for a while, I didn’t think much of it, I managed my processes to reduce overhead and put up with any shortfalls caused by it.
Still trying to get exciting by doing and learning new things...
Blender Tutorials by Blender Guru
I've been watching these through rather than going out INTO THE SUN LIKE. He does go on a bit but it's lively and he uses the app with a smoothness that I find compelling. Here's part 3 of the series I linked above:
Dave Keating, my mentor in the Cybernetics Department would always so that before doing artificial intelligence, we should strive for artificial stupidity. After all, he would argue, we can't agree what intelligence really looks like but we can agree on stupidity!
A charming little game about piloting this odd land ship across a post apocalyptic landscape. At first you have to fuel it to keep it going by running around inside pushing buttons to run the generator and releasing steam loading new fuel and then stopping to grab more fuel off the ground as you roll along. Then you get sails that allow you to use wind power and as you progress more and different upgrades.
The landscape of this odd post apocalyptic world rolls past in the background as you go and periodically you have to get out to overcome some obstacle on your path.
A clutch of links and things I've found that I like. You might like too.
Charming, tight and each well constructed. Such as:
So I've been toying with some game dev too but rather than just using unity like a sensible person I decided to write my own engine in C++ using opengl3
So lots of stuff coming out of E3 at the moment like Hitman 2 Anthem cyberpunk 2077 and so on. One of them is Fallout 76 the first multiplayer game in the fallout universe.
Bethesda have been teasing the game for the past month but did their first announcement with proper details and gameplay this sunday.
Here's a summary of the details given in that presentation
This update felt like I have done a whole load of stuff but really, I've learnt a load of stuff. I put a new menu, which I won't dwell on. It's just a nice new picture. None of it has been brain-taxing like sodding building placement was. Here's the video: